Chapter: Ethanalyzer

Ethanalyzer

Using Ethanalyzer

Ethanalyzer is a Cisco NX-OS protocol analyzer tool based on the Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) open source code. Ethanalyzer is a command-line version of Wireshark that captures and decodes packets. You can use Ethanalyzer to troubleshoot your network and analyze the control-plane traffic.

To configure Ethanalyzer, use one or more of the following commands:

Table 26-1 Ethanalyzer Commands Used for Configuring

Command

Purpose

switch# ethanalyzer local sniff-interface interface

Captures packets sent or received by the supervisor and provides detailed protocol information.

Note For all commands in this table, interface is control, ha-primary, ha-secondary, inband (packet interface) or mgmt (management interface).